Country size comparison

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Russia is about 154 times bigger than Bulgaria.

Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 15,321% larger than Bulgaria. Meanwhile, the population of Bulgaria is ~6.9 million people (135.1 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Bulgaria vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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